Tooling7d ago
VS Code Preview Introduces Canvases: Shared Workspaces for Developers and Coding Agents
The Microsoft VS Code team announced Canvases in VS Code Preview (v1.142), introducing dedicated shared visual workspaces connecting developers with autonomous coding agents. Addressing the severe UX limitations of cramped sidebar chat windows—where complex multi-file architectural modifications and agent diffs become hard to track—Canvases provides an expansive, interactive infinite-canvas whiteboard. Developers and agents (such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and Cline) can collaboratively organize system flowcharts, live interactive code diffs, execution traces, and unit test rollouts side by side.
Release20d ago
Microsoft takes MAI-Code-1.1-Flash local: 137B MoE scores 70.8% SWE-Bench Verified on-device, GitHub Copilot to route between local and cloud
At its Oct 7 Windows event Microsoft shipped an on-device MAI-Code-1.1-Flash (137B total / 6.8B active MoE, 256K context, ~3.3 bits per weight) on RTX Spark PCs, scoring 70.80% SWE-Bench Verified and 66.29% Terminal-Bench 2.1 locally. GitHub HydraFusion will route Copilot tasks between local and cloud models in experimental preview later in October, with no inference charge for local calls; MXC agent containment went GA the same day.
Pricing36d ago
Vercel: Grok 4.7 on AI Gateway with 40% off through September 27
@vercel announced Grok 4.7 is available on Vercel AI Gateway with 40% off through September 27, and can be tried with v0, eve, and fx. For developers building apps and coding agents on the Vercel stack, this lowers the cost of trying Grok 4.7.
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